Typhoon wrote: The fear of women and the perception that sex is somehow unclean is hardly unique to Islam.
You are right about that.
http://theweek.com/articles/453219/ever ... ion-crisis
The Japanese now have one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, and at the same time, one of the highest longevity rates. As a result, the population is dropping rapidly, and becoming increasingly weighted toward older people. After peaking seven years ago, at 128 million, Japan's population has been falling — and is on a path to decline by about a million people a year. By 2060, the government estimates, there will be just 87 million people in Japan; nearly half of them will be over 65. Without a dramatic change in either the birthrate or its restrictive immigration policies, Japan simply won't have enough workers to support its retirees, and will enter a demographic death spiral. Yet the babies aren't coming.
There clearly is a subset of Japanese youth who have withdrawn from dating. Instead, they focus on online porn and games like Nintendo's Love Plus, in which players conduct a relationship with an anime girlfriend. Hundreds of thousands of young men are known as hikikomori, shut-ins who eschew human contact and spend their days playing video games and reading comics in their parents' homes.
Not just religions.Celibacy, a form of ignorance, is held to be a virtue in many religions.
The British newspaper The Observer recently caused an international stir by reporting that Japanese youth have lost interest in sex. The sensationalist conclusion was mostly based on a single statistic: a survey that found that 45 percent of women and 25 percent of men ages 16 to 24 said they were not looking to have sex. The article also cited the phrase sekkusu shinai shokogun, or "celibacy syndrome,"
By some. Not all.Eve, after all, and by extension, womenkind are held to be responsible from the fall from the Garden of Eden.
Faith is just believing in something. It's not an appeal to authority.As is the appeal to authority a.k.a. faith.
As ill informed now as when you first posted it.